Can We Call It Like It Is?

++The killing of Rev. Pinckney was a political assassination. He had been the youngest state senator in South Carolina's history and remained revered by his colleagues--black and white.

++You can create your own context--but one of them is race. The sorry burden on the country in the 21st Century.

++David Remnick at the New Yorker said the killings were lynching. But could we be more explicit . It was an act of terrorism. 

++Sadly, more white terrorists have killed Americans since 9/11 than Muslims. Isn't about time something be done about this.

++Martin O'Malley appeared on Morning Joe and discussed the mental illness involved in this event. And we can see the white 20ish males involved in the mass murders in recent years as all having some kind of mental illness. 

++But this escapes that this was a political assassination carried out by a young person enamored of white supremacist propaganda. 

++The e-mails from the right I have received that tried to mitigate this event without mentioning race are startling. The arguments about people should have been armed. That we haven't had a church killing in 50 years. But they conveniently forgot about the killings at the Universalist Unitarian Church because a white man wanted to kill liberals or the burning of the black church in Massachusetts because a white man wanted to protest the re-election of President Obama. Then an e-mail about some Townhall piece about how an attack on a Colorado Springs Church ended differently.

++God knows how the congregation actually told the killer "we forgive you." That's like the Amish forgiving the murderer of the girls years back.

++The AP had a story that blacks were frustrated after so many killings in the past two years. One black leader said that he can't tell his people not to get angry anymore. 

++The forbearance of the Emmanuel congregation is amazing. I would have burned Charleston back down to the ground.